Joseph Mitchell started furiously collecting doorknobs, nails, bottles and the like around the time he stopped publishing his profiles of misfits, cranks and other ordinary characters that,...
As director of Duke Performances, Aaron Greenwald’s influence on University life is different. He’s not the ever-identifiable figure like the president, but his hand is visible every time you walk...
When we’re young, we have demigods of college entrepreneurship looming above our heads, simply asking: What's stopping us?
To see a room at the Washington Duke Inn being cleaned is to see the room undress. Her elaborate coverings-nine pieces in all-are peeled off, replaced with fresh linen. In the bathroom, dirt from...
There will always be something sublime about baseball on a warm summer night. Provided I don't have a rooting interest, I have never found the sport all that interesting to watch, but there's...
Walking into Toast feels like walking into a venerated, Old Durham institution. It's not the look, not as though dust has collected in corners, or paper browned to the color of tobacco on the...
There's no doubt about it: The city which councilmember Mike Woodard lives and works looks drastically different from the Durham he first encountered as a Duke freshman in 1977. "Ten years ago, the...
IT'S HARD TO APPRECIATE Duke when you're so finely entangled with University life, when walking through the Gothic campus in sweltering humidity becomes routine and when you've forgotten how a...
The plush, upscale Ivy Room at Chicago's Tree Studios, near the famed Magnificent Mile, once played host to the Windy City's top artists. But for one remarkably warm and sunny evening in late May,...
After 13 years as Duke's executive vice president, Tallman Trask III is no stranger to tough times. He's navigated schools through two recessions-one in 1991 as EVP at the University of Washington...
A mere seven purgatorial miles in to South Carolina lies a town that God either forgot about or gave up on. I don't mean to belittle the weekly worship of the loyal churchgoers of North Myrtle...
If you don't know where you're going, you'll never find the Duke Coffeehouse. At 1 a.m. in December, just a week before finals, I badly needed to study for Econ 51, but I really wanted to visit the...
Come springtime last year, Duke students flocked to Devine's-that faded, familiar Main Street bar-in greater numbers, angling for tall-boys of Bud Light and crushing cigarettes into the low wooden...
Duke's resident wordsmith is fresh off publishing his most recent memoir, "Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back," detailing his experience as a Rhodes scholar and young Duke professor. The...
9:00 A.M. Good morning sunshine Sleeping past 10 a.m. on LDOC is not an option. If you do, you will wake up, find your friends already hammered and be the lonely sober guy/girl. That's a terrifying...
It is possible to live in the library. It's also possible that after a week of it I will avoid Duke libraries until my 10-year reunion. The biggest challenge was not staying amused (the library is...
Ask seniors Lawrence Chen and Shang Gao what they are studying in college and their answers will be nothing out of the ordinary for a Duke student-they are both economics majors and will graduate...
After his show in Page Auditorium, comedian B.J. Novak was spotted with DUU prez Cha Goonewardene at the James Joyce. Novak was later seen leaving the bar with a group of girls. We wonder how they...
I'm a New Englander. You can tell. I don't have the Southern charm (read: accent). I harass people when they claim to be cold. I call Manhattan "The City," regardless of who I'm talking to. Before...
Because I can-because it's been nearly a year since I graduated, and because that means I'm imbued with the power of perspective-I'm going to tell you how to say goodbye to Duke. You have to know...
